Every story has its fugitives. I, a deviant self-hacker with three arms, two stomachs, and no name, is on the run from RSCH, an high-tech, authoritarian government that mandates wellness and carves the contours of truth itself. When I is kidnapped at axe-point to be mined for forbidden memories, they must struggle against RSCH’s medical abuse to recapture their history, reunite with their lover, and rewrite their future –– or risk remaining Patient forever.
I crosses an epistolary, time-flipped dreamscape as they recollect their memories from RSCH’s hungry archive, and, in the process, write the story of their liberation.
Conjuring an ecosystem of Madness, music, memory, bugbutter explores bodies on the edge. In these hybrid poems, the human and the more-than-human mingle in sites of trauma and hope, with fantastical characters from Moomin to Catdog guiding the way. With bugbutter, Cali-based Cavar writes a modern myth of transMad childhood, and pulls poetry from its thickest hurts and tenderest absences. AND ALSO bugbutter features an 8-track playlist curated by the author. How cute is THAT?!
Printed in a limited run of fifty copies at Product Photo in Toronto, this chapbook has a cover illustrated and designed by Jamie Crews. Typeset by Dani Spinosa.
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